Best Action movies of 1981

Actors : Te-Kang Chi, Yuan Chuan, Kuan-Wu Lung, Fei Lung,
Directors : Danny Cheng,

The most deadly fighter on earth, a man so dangerous in combat he only uses one hand, is after the greatest book ever written. This book, a tutorial in the "mantis fist", must be protected by an unlikely band of hero's.

Actors : Bruce Le, Bill Louie, Chung-Kuei Chang, Chiu Chen,
Directors : Kuo-Hsiang Lin,

The two fighters of the title clash due to a gang boss playing them off against each other. The boss is hoping to steal a million dollars of the country's money, and when the two fighters ...

Actors : Prashanth, Jeetendra, Mukri, Jagdeep,
Directors : Samir Ganguly,

Khoon Ka Rishta is a wonderful Pran starer in which he plays an ex freedom fighter as also Justice Surendra Sinha with an impeccable honest record faced with the crimes of his half brother Kailash played by Amjad Khan.

Actors : Max H. Boulois, Peter Cushing, Claudine Auger, Hugo Stiglitz,
Directors : Max H. Boulois,

Sir Thomas Bedford orchestrates the heist of a Spanish casino, with the aid of a singer performing there. The police are aware of their activities, and a hostage situation arises.

Actors : Dante Varona, Vivian Velez, Ric Arellano, Rod Navarro,
Directors : Carlo J. Caparas,

To earn money that could be used to save his girlfriend from blindness, a stuntman named Dante agreed to perform the most dangerous stunt that no other stuntman would ever dare to perform. ...

Actors : Charo Santos-Concio, Dante Varona, Vivian Velez, Roland Dantes,
Directors : Carlo J. Caparas,

Dante Varona was tagged as hermit on this film. His bad fate and past drove him to find another life in the mountain. He obtained his power from an old hermit who gave him his magic cane ...

Actors : Hamedah El Khogah, Ali Kadak, John Khogon, Al Amin Nassef,

An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies.

Actors : Betty Harrison, Alan Marlowe, Bob Holden, Arthur Roberts,
Directors : Amin Q. Chaudhri,

A man sets out to take revenge on the sadist who murdered his girlfriend.

Actors : Mi-hie Jang, Kang-jo Lee, Wu-cheol Shin, Mi-kyeong Won,
Directors : Hyo-cheon Kim,

Kim, Du-han earns the wrath of the Yakuza boss, Konoe, when he saves the life of Korean freedom fighter Hwang Ryong. Konoe hopes to hire the assassin Shirasoni to kill his enemies but ...

Actors : Chiang Chen, Carl Scott, Billy Chong, Sing Chen,
Directors : Chan Wei Lin,

Li, a martial artist, returns home to find out that his father is being harassed by a crime syndicate. Together with an American kung fu champion he vows revenge when the syndicate kills his father.

Actors : David Chiang, Siu Tin Yuen, Paul Chun, Hua Yueh,
Directors : Tien-Yung Hsu,

David Chiang, star of many classic Shaw Brothers films, and the great Yuen Hsiao Tien (Jackie Chan's Drunken Master) star in this kung fu bonanza set in China's warlord period. When a ...

Actors : Asha Parekh, Helen, Raaj Kumar, Danny Denzongpa,
Directors : Esmayeel Shroff,

A college professor agrees to teach the son of a gangster and becomes a pawn in a deadly game.

Actors : Ling Chang, Ya-Lei Kuei, Ping Chang, Hua Tsung,
Directors : Hao Fang,

An orphan girl becomes a martial arts expert to revenge her murdered family, and discovers that the evil monk behind the play has turned her loved ones against her.

Actors : Albert Salmi, Cameron Mitchell, Shaun Curry, Peter Graves,
Directors : Tony Zarindast,

Two turn of the Century fortune hunters (Peter Graves and Cameron Mitchell) discover oil in Persia and attempt to claim it. Serious resistance is met.